For obsessive-compulsive disorder, response prevention is added to the exposure therapy. Describe response prevention
What will be an ideal response?
Response prevention refers to the practice of the person engaging in planned prevention of compulsive behaviors when he or she is exposed to the feared event or stimulus. Thus, the person with obsessive-compulsive disorder not only undergoes the process of habituation of fear or anxiety through exposure, but when he or she does not act upon the compulsive urge, through using response prevention, he or she also learns to recognize that a ritual is not necessary to prevent feared outcomes (e.g., the home will not burn down because the stove was not repeatedly checked).
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a. .75; 8 b. 2; 15 c. 4; 25 d. 7; 30
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a. sparser b. denser c. faster d. shorter
Quentin has never liked his coworker, Ryan. One day, he notices that Ryan is called into the manager's office, and he can overhear the manager chastising Ryan for his months of low sales numbers. Quentin takes pleasure in this fact
Quentin is experiencing ________. a) social contagion b) Schadenfreude c) destructive obedience d) synchronous behavior